That makes a bit more sense. Thank you for quickly clarifying that @DavidTurner!
So in this case, in a cluster of 9, we have two nodes that seem to be taking a heavy brunt of the load. Whether that is one index that is heavily written to, or multiple (likely a combination of 2 to 3), how would you suggest we tackle 'balancing' the cluster? Should we increase cluster.routing.allocation.balance.(shard|index|threshold)? Should we just give the node a restart to force an update to the shards (though normally they just pick back up eventually on the restarted node)?
Thanks again for all the assistance and clarification!